In this new light painting video I show the difference in the Opaque and Translucent Light Writers. This is one of the most common questions I get about the Light Painting Brushes Light Painting Tools, How it helps 🙂 Enjoy:

Light Painting Photographer Dee Light specializes in a form of light drawing known as Light Calligraphy. I had the pleasure of meeting and shooting with Dee about a year ago and to see him create is work in real life is something special. His movements are smooth and elegant and I was really impressed with his general spacial awareness and the way he moved his lights through the air. Dee has created a nice video tutorial showing how he creates his Light Calligraphy along with some help from fellow Light Painting Artist Chanette Manso, check it out below!

Chris Benbow has been busting A** producing some really great light painting video tutorials. Check out these two newbies….

P.S. Chris’s wife Laura has been behind the camera filming these for everyone to enjoy and learn from, much like my own lovely wife she helps a lot and deserves some credit as well sooooo thanks Laura….

This is the first in the 3 part light painting video tutorial series, Light Painting 101. The Light Painting 101 series will cover the three basic light painting photography techniques: On Camera, Off Camera, and Kinetic Light Painting Photography. In this light painting tutorial you will learn what the 3 basic light painting techniques are and what you need to create a light painting photograph. In this particular video I will show you a little about the “On Camera” light painting technique by showing you how to paint an octopus that lives in the woods?

Gel Holder

If your like most of us light painting photographers you’ve probably got a bunch of gels laying all over the place, when you go out to shoot you fumble around in the dark trying to find the green only to flash a shot of blue into your image, well this is another super simple light painting photography tip/tutorial that will solve your problems. I didn’t come up with this gel holder I totally stole the idea from seeing pictures of other peoples light painting photography tool kits I think it was either TCB’s or Trevor’s. Anyway thought I would share the tip I robbed, enjoy…CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL TUTORIAL

In this light painting photography tutorial you will learn a little bit about white balance and how to set a custom white balance to created a colored effect for your light painting images so they can stay SOOC. Created by Jason D. Page.

We all know how easy it is to tweak the hues of a photo in post production software like the dreaded photo@#!%, a word we do not speak here at light painting photography, but do you understand what the hell you are actually doing when you change the color? Well friends what you are doing is changing the temperature of the image. All light color is measured in degrees Kelvin, named after engineer and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. We could get into his scientific theory but I would have to pretend to understand it which I don’t. Basically in the world of light painting photography all you need to know is that the lower the Kelvin temperature the “warmer” or more yellow the light appears and the higher Kelvin temperature the “cooler” or more blue the light will appear. In the next post I’m going to get into white balance, why color temperature matters, and how to get some cool effects by tweaking the white balance of your camera in turn changing the color temperature of your image and keeping your light painting images SOOC (Straight out of Camera). Check the chart below.

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About LPP Founder Jason D. Page

My name is Jason D. Page and I am a light painter. LightPaintingPhotography.com was born out of my passion and obsession with light painting photography. I have been a photographer since the late 1990’s and even before that I have had images in my brain that I wanted to … [Read More...]

The winner for the Light Writing contest is… Hugo Lomas Fernandez, a.k.a. SFHIR for this excellent light writing that also included a camera rotation! SFHIR said this about his winning image! Whooooow great news! Thank you very much, Im very happy to win at my first picture in a contest. The picture was created at […]